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08-25-2023, 08:51 AM
After a closely watched vote, driverless cars, once a Silicon Valley fantasy, have become a 24-hour-a-day reality in San Francisco. Are autonomous vehicles an interesting and safe transportation alternative? Or are they a nuisance and a traffic-blocking disaster waiting to happen?
Cade Metz, who covers technology for The Times, describes the unique challenges of coexisting with cars that drive themselves.
Guest: Cade Metz (https://www.nytimes.com/by/cade-metz), a technology correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco.html?searchResultPosition=2)The New York Times dispatched three reporters around the city (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco.html?searchResultPosition=2) to test the service.
Local officials are worried (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/technology/san-francisco-driverless-cars.html?searchResultPosition=6) that state regulators have been too eager to embrace plans for round-the-clock driverless taxi services.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
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Cade Metz, who covers technology for The Times, describes the unique challenges of coexisting with cars that drive themselves.
Guest: Cade Metz (https://www.nytimes.com/by/cade-metz), a technology correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
On Monday, Waymo began letting the public pay for rides in its driverless cars in San Francisco. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco.html?searchResultPosition=2)The New York Times dispatched three reporters around the city (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/technology/cruise-crash-driverless-car-san-francisco.html?searchResultPosition=2) to test the service.
Local officials are worried (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/09/technology/san-francisco-driverless-cars.html?searchResultPosition=6) that state regulators have been too eager to embrace plans for round-the-clock driverless taxi services.
For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily (http://nytimes.com/thedaily?smid=pc-thedaily). Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.
أكثر... (https://www.nytimes.com/the-daily)